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Biography of Roger Williams, Founder of Rhode Island and Father of the Separation of Church and StateRoger Williams was a minister and politician who founded the settlement of Providence, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations - or Rhode Island - one of the 13 Original Colonies. He was born in London and, as a boy, he studied under Sir Edward Coke, attended Pembroke College in Cambridge, and received his degree in 1627.